Valnao10h ago

US man pleads guilty to defrauding music streamers out of millions using AI

https://sh.itjust.works/post/57188936

US man pleads guilty to defrauding music streamers out of millions using AI - sh.itjust.works

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Show threadAda10h ago
I feel like I’m missing something in this article. If he was taking the music but also faking the play counts with bots, how were other artists missing out?
Show threadfaltryka10h ago
The streaming service pays them out of a pool proportionally. So he basically diluted the distribution from that pool, resulting in lower payments to everyone else.
Show threadNirodhaAvidya
How is that different from Spotify producing their own AI-gen music? Seems like that’s 3-4 minutes of listening that otherwise would’ve been spent listening to an artist.
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Show threadfaltryka5h ago
No clue
Show threadrollerbang3h ago

It’s different when a corporation does it.

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Show threadChadGPT21h ago
The crime here was faking the play counts with listening bots, thus closing the loop. If an artist built a machine to play their own song a billion times to make them money, that would also be a crime, I suppose.